why do you waste dozens of hours by playing online shooters?

[Nickname]

life sucks to absolutely high degree or what? before ren (and sometimes even now) i have wasted thousand of hours by playing half-life online. is there some substitute for shooters so instead of wasting precious hours of your own life u can actually do something useful? fast paced action? can u list useful examples ? its like informational adrenaline rush 4 yr brain?

in ren i like cooperative thing and funny moments. i dont care about victory, just fun with sbh nude or sbh stealing veh. or "madness" moments. apart from funny things (including in chat), tactics, strategy WHAT THE FWORD DO U LIKE IN ONLINE SHOOTERS, REN particularly? thers no content, all the same. u can change skin or other view things, or binds, but process stays the same. aim shoot and move to dodge others scope. post yr reply, adeqate sir.

The Psychological Appeal of Violent Shooters:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-08-the-psychological-appeal-of-violent-shooters

 

 

Edited January 27, 2017 by Nickname

[mdogg1108]

What?

[Manuel857]

Why waste your time posting in a gaming community?

[Nickname]

exactly. the main question of this topic is: is there a way to replace gaming activity with other(and ofcourse having same things you play games for), really usefull ? (which improves your life. except physical or psycho health)

if you havent already wasted 1000+ hours in virtual worlds which have no connection to "real" world, then you cannot consider gaming as kind of addiction or unnecessary weak spot (remove game and you cant get relaxation, joy or whatever you playing for).

Edited January 27, 2017 by Nickname

[Guest rackz]

Im working as you see on my avatar. After that i need a chilled game like ren. 

[ehh]

do sudoku

[Guest rackz]

what do you do in reallife? your topic sounds like a bad trip on pills or shrooms. get down and post again.

[Goztow]

I've wasted dozens of weeks in Ren, not dozens of hours. But it can't beat a weekend with friends. 

[u00fzTar]

I hold it with Gozy. But if you feel isolated in that way, - I noticed a post from you (Introductions I guess) where u told us that u make Dubstep.
So I recommend you to look for Dubstep events, or whatever music you like.
You dont need friends, to get start up with it. Just enjoy the music with the event. It sounds simple, but doing some Party will change your "brain settings" to a positive one. (and show u new ways)

But I'm 26 and from Berlin. Maybe its not comparable with your situation?
But this was how it worked for me in "difficult situations"

[Nudle]

I  can't !madboomhs when I finish a page of a book.

[Learonys]

What would you consider "not wasting time"? Inventing a medicine that cures all diseases in the world? As long as you pay your taxes, be nice to your parents, and all the other stuff, what's wrong with putting any spare time into doing an activity that you like? It's just entertainment. Do you consider drawing art not wasting time? Digitially, it's just pixels and if you actually paint, it's just dried out colourant on a sheet of silk(?) or paper.

There's a deeper meaning to everything in the world. This doesn't mean that we need to look for every time to feel useful though, sometimes it's just fun to mindlessly do what you enjoy doing, without worrying about why you like doing it.

Edited January 27, 2017 by Learonys

[ehh]

7 hours ago, Goztow said:

I've wasted dozens of weeks in Ren, not dozens of hours. But it can't beat a weekend with friends. 

years*

[Peshmerga]

cuz we addicted to dis shit

[ROZPIERDALATOR]

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why do you waste dozens of hours by playing online shooters?

because I like wasting my life. wasted 
I wasted ~170 days in last 2 years by playing renegade

[masscarriers]

12 hours ago, Nickname said:

exactly. the main question of this topic is: is there a way to replace gaming activity with other(and ofcourse having same things you play games for), really usefull ? (which improves your life. except physical or psycho health)

Except doing sports and being healthy? I guess having a productive hobby would get close to it. For instance I brew beer, it's relaxing and I save a ton of money.

[Guest rackz]

Heil Masscarriers! 

[Forithow]

3 hours ago, masscarriers said:

Except doing sports and being healthy? I guess having a productive hobby would get close to it. For instance I brew beer, it's relaxing and I save a ton of money.

What I wouldn't give for a tall cold one right now.

[Mikey]

When I was younger and first started playing ren I was addicted to the game for sure, there would be times when I would be in on my computer from when I woke up until I went to sleep, which would sometimes be 5-6am in the morning. It was pretty bad! 

I just found the game so addictive and the whole gaming 'atmosphere' at the time was so different, this game is not what it used to be but times move on, would I do it all over again ? No.

May just be me but I find myself growing out of video games nowadays, I just don't have the time nor the interest to play much anymore - I don't wanna adult anymore!

 

[Theboy]

On ‎1‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 11:23 PM, Nickname said:

exactly. the main question of this topic is: is there a way to replace gaming activity with other(and ofcourse having same things you play games for), really usefull ? (which improves your life. except physical or psycho health)

if you havent already wasted 1000+ hours in virtual worlds which have no connection to "real" world, then you cannot consider gaming as kind of addiction or unnecessary weak spot (remove game and you cant get relaxation, joy or whatever you playing for).

Yea you could get into things that make you money like trading stocks or buying options. Theres nothing like taking the same passion for gaming and fashioning it into something that brings success in the real world. Theres always the gym as well but you did say anything besides the physical. I think most gamers would enjoy the stock market because its a game. except theres real money to be made.

[ehh]

I remeber when i played jelly mara under for 7 hours, played all of it :>

[ice187dna]

Are you meaning:

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Gamification is the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals. Gamification taps into the basic desires and needs of the users impulses which revolve around the idea of Status and Achievement.

Some use shooters to gain hand-eye co-ordination skills or improve on them, even reaction times. Think of the Army using shooter games for survival/combat purposes. Airlines use flight simulators to create real life scenarios like bad weather or engine failure to deal with. Driving simulators for people learning to drive and dealing with the hazards. Minecraft for creativity thus leading to future designers for the real world etc.

Playing games isn't just for fun, it can be educational. People play to escape real life, be creative, develop skills....even people with disabilities you games to help them in many ways. 

Games are getting more physical like the Virtual Reality where you are now stood up moving around or even on special treadmills to simulate the body. 

[ehh]

terrorists use games too!!!

[Guest rackz]

Yea terrorits play the new world order reallife simulator!

[Nickname]

On 1/31/2017 at 7:33 AM, Theboy said:

Yea you could get into things that make you money like trading stocks or buying options. Theres nothing like taking the same passion for gaming and fashioning it into something that brings success in the real world. Theres always the gym as well but you did say anything besides the physical. I think most gamers would enjoy the stock market because its a game. except theres real money to be made.

having passion is enough to gain stable successful results? or some other skills/qualities r required 4 trading, except ones obtainable through lessons? i mean, major portion of population's are in the Colonel Sanders (R) private chicken mini-army ^_^

yea, gym is a redundant option comparing to own boat and diving gear onboard ^_^ dating mermaid looks like a much more fun ^_____________^

Edited February 1, 2017 by Nickname

[Nickname]

13 hours ago, ice187dna said:

Are you meaning:

Playing games isn't just for fun, it can be educational. People play to escape real life, be creative, develop skills....even people with disabilities you games to help them in many ways. 

Games are getting more physical like the Virtual Reality where you are now stood up moving around or even on special treadmills to simulate the body. 

no, the thing is to waste time by repeating meaningless tasks. in the result no new content being generated. just "basic animal needs" but in more advanced human like form. ways to get some joy are various. knowledge(more precise - information) does nothing with emotions (like joy or helpless n00b feeling with a huge "noob here" marker emerging from hard-tight-ass facepalmed gods).

hardware is not needed for selftransformation. studies made it clear(reproducible) some time ago. from reading plain text book to computer assisted methods. actually large tv screen is enough sometimes.

hardware can be very helpful for a n00b, but later will it'l become concrete limitation and considerable amount of time will be required just to acquire awareness of the fact, after that another volume of time can be needed to fully reconfigure "perception interface" to 100% fleshy one :3

hw is for n00bs who r incapable of con trolling their own attention and perception. pure plain text book lit up in soundless environment (naturally night) can take away into another world the more immersive the more time spent on continuous reading. as well as watching movie or playin' computer games.

but thats another story cuz there is no addiction. people can play like 24 hours or even days, without having a break. because of an addiction. and thats the new trend (more than one instance exists), although its not mainstream yet ^_____________^

interested in finding the reason (or essence to be more correct) of the addiction, and then perhaps, find another activity which will contain the source of the essence, but also is capable of stimulating some creative activity. content generation. or like mentioned earlier, result generation ("real world games" like trading, chicken business, etc). right now am addicted to Ren. prior it was HalfLife online but i quit it, for personal reasons, like 4 months ago. i still play sometimes. besides personal reasons there is r no returning drivers for me cuz it looks like Ren has all HL had and much more. i can choose between cooperative gameplay and single play sniping. gameplay is much more richer than HL's - lots of weaps, chars, and even vehs. but something is generall for PC games iv played, even sinpleplayer ones - addiction. just wanna be there all the time. why? crisp sharp textures? bright colors which nature cannot provide? even if thats 32 bits. physical world sucks, and right now am justsearching for more productive non-physical activity. the driver for some gamers can be concluded, by bumerous of studies, theory that there is no difference between drug addiction, gaming, sex, going to footbal for another adrenaline rush. or extreme sports where error can cost own life. every time in the end, one is urging for "it" much more than ever before. there is no return from this trap unless some environmental will forcefully break connection. one game changed by another. one happy thing with PC games that they bring almost no harm comparing to drugs or extreme sports. just consuming tons of hours.

Edited February 1, 2017 by Nickname